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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Ivan Turgenev

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Creation Destroy Nature Right
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Dreams Oneself Soar Start Tired
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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Hands Independent Life Yourself
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Achievement Flower Love Myself Production
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Force Myself Talk
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Eat Regard Time Yourself Youth
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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Aware Forever Moments Obligation Spiritual
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

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